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Council's Got ... Talent?
At intermission, we talk to the headliners
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Foie Gras Fracas
Animal rights activists who recently vandalized Downtown
restaurants that sell duck liver or veal may be
unintentionally screwing up efforts of separate animal
rights campaign focusing on banning foie gras
BY AMY SMITH
Scott Panetti: Sane Enough to Execute?
Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row
inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires
condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding'
of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth
Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment
BY JORDAN SMITH
Local Critters Struggle Through Wet Weather
Austin, Hill Country's animals getting hammered by rains,
other harsh conditions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Naked City
Media Watch
KXAN promises a new approach to 'Austin News' –
but will it go beyond just a new set?
BY KEVIN BRASS
Point Austin: Futrell's Twilight
As the city manager looks homeward, odd old business
erupts
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Telling ghost stories around the summer campfire, the
Statesman imagines a grisly end for Futrell
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Taking Taxpayers for a Ride; and Thompson the Actor
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Enough Is Enough!
I've been a food critic for 15 years. I've been overeating
all my life. Recently, I decided enough is enough!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Independent Food
A letter from Boggy Creek Farm
BY CAROL ANN SAYLE
Wine of the Week
Try France
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Caffe Medici celebrates a big win at the South Central
Regional Barista Competition
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
July 13-19
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Juke Joint Blues
Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin'
Circuit memory lane
BY JONNY MEYERS
Off the Record
Austin's musical landscape and its evolution continue
rumbling down on Red River, documenting Roky Erickson,
and the Weary Boys call it quits
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Gourds
Noble Creatures
Roky Erickson
You're Gonna Miss Me
Cue
Wedding Songs
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo
Glenn Rexach
Living Joe to Joe
Poor Man's Fortune, the Tea Merchants
In Good Time, One Lump or Two?
screens
Adjusting to the Mise-en-Scène
Nine nonfilmmakers – artists out of place –
make one in 48 hours
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Guidance for Parentals Suggested
George Ratliff on Joshua
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
In Space
The Fiction Liberation Front
BY RICK KLAW
Film News
Austinite Chris Eska's August Evening wins big at
LAFF, a year after locals Gretchen and
Chalk did
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Walls come tumbling down
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Angel-A
Luc Besson delivers a gorgeous-looking but ill-conceived mash note to the city of Paris that stars a petty crook and an ethereal beauty.
Awarapan
In this new Bollywood film, a gangster has the job of keeping an eye on his boss' mistress, a girl who was sold to him in the flesh trade.
Broken English
Parker Posey gives a lovely, toned-down performance as Nora Wilder, the single, mid-30s Manhattanite at the heart of this romantic comedy.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Yes, it's true: Harry Potter manages his first kiss, in between all manner of expository storytelling, and never was a young man's wand more ever-ready.
Joshua
The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.
Syndromes and a Century
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates a baffling yet intriguing film of meandering abstractions. (AFS@Dobie)
You Kill Me
Cuddlier and more charming, this alcoholic-hit-man comedy isn’t your typical John Dahl noir, but it is offbeat, lovably deadpan, and just tart enough.
arts & culture
What Can a Century Tell Us?
Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years
of imagery, the more things change ...
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Chamber Music Festival: The aria of Anne Frank
For the first time in its 11-year history, the annual Austin
Chamber Music Festival will present an opera: the Texas
premiere of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank
BY BARRY PINEO
Girls Girls Girls: The female of the species
Girls Girls Girls launches its Boys of Summer series with
guest male improviser Jeremy Lamb
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Culture Flash!
The skinny on selecting public art, Cookie leads Dance/
USA, Conspirare goes worldwide, and a UT playwright's
scholarly honors
Arts Reviews
The Buttons and Bows Show: Hilah's Dollhouse
The strength of The Buttons and Bows Show is
Buttons and Bows, beautiful souls whose innocence is
charming and heartbreaking
My Favorite Year
The Zilker Summer Musical production of My Favorite
Year triumphed over the recent storms and occasionally
over the show's weak material
columns
Page Two: Looney Tunes
A swan song for the conspiracy series
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Our latest batch
After a Fashion
Wynn bares all, Sills trumps Ivana, and when Stephen
wishes for something, it comes true
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Lake Mackenzie, north of Silverton, a historic and scenic
oasis in the Panhandle
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The arguments against ties and flip-flops
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Bad Credit – Should I Hire a 'Credit Repair'
Company?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Roky Erickson's 60th Birthday Party
Paramount Theatre, Friday, July 13, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Lightning on the road, and more on the Asian Cup, Copa América, Under-20 World Cup, MLS …
